AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs NVIDIA NVS 310

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7970

NVIDIA NVS 310

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 and 512MB VRAM NVS 310 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 14.00GB/s)

2000 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA NVS 310 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

Lower TDP (20W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 +3689%

3.789 TFLOPS

NVS 310

0.1 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970

VS

NVS 310

Graphics Card

Dec 2011

Release Date

Jun 2012

Southern Islands

Generation

NVS

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

875 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

14.00GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

1

2048

Shading Units

48

128

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.046 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.184 GTexel/s

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

100.4 GFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

8.368 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

20W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DisplayPort

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GF119

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

GF119-825-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

79 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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